Children's festival
Today there was a children's festival at West Ryde. It was a warm sunny day. We thought it would be fun.
We were first a little taken aback by the distance we had to go for a parking spot. It was obviously quite a popular festival. And when we got there, the queues for most of the rides were very long, especially for the attention span of a two-year-old. So we took turns to wait in line and take Louka round to see other attractions, or buy ice-creams for us all.
Louka liked the pony rides, as expected. She also enjoyed the tea-cup roundabout with me. Graham joined the long queue for the little ferris wheel. It seemed to move very slowly. While he was in that queue, I took Louka through the blow-up train tunnel and twice on the mini merry-go-round, collected a balloon for her while she played with wooden cars, let her play in the playgroup playground, then took her to get her face painted. There was a short but slow queue for the face-painting, and while we were waiting Graham rang to say we should go back to the ferris wheel.
The ferris wheel was quite small, but it was children only. Louka got in and allowed the attendant to put her seatbelt on. She looked a little doubtful, but went up and round a couple of times. Then she started to get upset. We tried to reassure her, touching her hand each time she came round, but she was too unhappy, so we had to stop the ferris wheel and let her off.
Then back to the face-painting tent. There were three people painting, but the queue continued to move slowly. Then, just as we reached the front of the queue, they announced that they were about to pack up! Louka was very upset, and one of the painters suggested I take a brush and paint Louka's face. Then, when she heard that Louka wanted to be a tiger, she said that was a quick one and she'd do it. She also remarked that it was refreshing to see a little girl who didn't want to be a fairy or butterfly.
Louka sat nice and quiet while her face was painted, and was pleased with the result, but she did want tiger stripes on her body too!
We were first a little taken aback by the distance we had to go for a parking spot. It was obviously quite a popular festival. And when we got there, the queues for most of the rides were very long, especially for the attention span of a two-year-old. So we took turns to wait in line and take Louka round to see other attractions, or buy ice-creams for us all.
Louka liked the pony rides, as expected. She also enjoyed the tea-cup roundabout with me. Graham joined the long queue for the little ferris wheel. It seemed to move very slowly. While he was in that queue, I took Louka through the blow-up train tunnel and twice on the mini merry-go-round, collected a balloon for her while she played with wooden cars, let her play in the playgroup playground, then took her to get her face painted. There was a short but slow queue for the face-painting, and while we were waiting Graham rang to say we should go back to the ferris wheel.
The ferris wheel was quite small, but it was children only. Louka got in and allowed the attendant to put her seatbelt on. She looked a little doubtful, but went up and round a couple of times. Then she started to get upset. We tried to reassure her, touching her hand each time she came round, but she was too unhappy, so we had to stop the ferris wheel and let her off.
Then back to the face-painting tent. There were three people painting, but the queue continued to move slowly. Then, just as we reached the front of the queue, they announced that they were about to pack up! Louka was very upset, and one of the painters suggested I take a brush and paint Louka's face. Then, when she heard that Louka wanted to be a tiger, she said that was a quick one and she'd do it. She also remarked that it was refreshing to see a little girl who didn't want to be a fairy or butterfly.
Louka sat nice and quiet while her face was painted, and was pleased with the result, but she did want tiger stripes on her body too!
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